Now this is really interesting - a series of interviews with qualitative researchers by qualitative researchers at the Forum : Qualitative Social Research.  From the introduction :

"KVALE (1996) has likened the qualitative interview to "wandering together with" the interviewee. He sees the interviewer as a traveling companion of the interviewee trying to elicit his or her "stories of the lived world" (p.4)óif we genuinely want to hear, to understand an individual we must provide a way for her or him to speak in a genuine voice. As qualitative researchers interviewing other qualitative researchers it would not do to simply ask questions and await responses; that would be antithetical to the notion of a qualitative interview: Our goal for the interviews in this issue is that they do reveal the interviewees' stories of their lived world, in their genuine voices. [7]

What voices have been included? As qualitative research is a poly-vocal endeavor, our aim was to present a variety of approaches important for qualitative researchósymbolic interaction, discourse theory, constructionism, psychoanalysis, and hermeneutics are some of them. Furthermore, those of us who do qualitative research are following the lead of scholars who saw the need for other ways to do social science; who saw that experimental methods and statistical analyses did not pave the royal road to the truth. We are in the enviable position that many of those scholars are still with us, still working, and have much to teach us. Therefore this special interview issue of FQS allows those scholars to share with us their stories, in the best qualitative tradition. Through these interviews we are able to bring together the researcheróthe personóand the work. It is important to be able to put a name, a face, with the research; it helps to humanize it"

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